Presentation is loading. Please wait.

Presentation is loading. Please wait.

Jonáš hromádka and Domink Píchal  New York is the most populous city in the United States  New York City consists of five boroughs which were consolidated.

Similar presentations


Presentation on theme: "Jonáš hromádka and Domink Píchal  New York is the most populous city in the United States  New York City consists of five boroughs which were consolidated."— Presentation transcript:

1

2 Jonáš hromádka and Domink Píchal

3  New York is the most populous city in the United States  New York City consists of five boroughs which were consolidated in 1898:  The Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island. With a 2010 United States Census population of 8,175,133  the city has been home to several of the tallest buildings in the world.

4  New York City is located in the northeastern United States, in southeastern New York State, approximately halfway between Washington, D.C. and Boston.  The Hudson River flows through the Hudson Valley into New York Bay

5  New York was colonisted of the Dutch Republic, and was named New Amsterdam  The city and its surrounds came under English control in 1664 and were renamed New York after King Charles II of England

6  Mass transit in New York City, most of which runs 24 hours a day  The New York City Subway is the largest rapid transit system in the world  The area is served by three major airports, John F. Kennedy International, Newark Liberty International and LaGuardia

7  There is many landmarks :  The Statue of Liberty National Monument, in New York  The Empire State Building  Times Square  Rockefeller Center, home to NBC Studios  Central Park an 883-acre (3.57 km2) park in Manhattan  luxury shopping along Fifth and Madison Avenues  Metropolitan Museum of Art  The Brooklyn Bridge

8  The city was one of the sites of the September 11, 2001 attacks, when nearly 3,000 people died in the destruction of theWorld Trade Center = The Twins  Now it‘s called Ground Zero  United Airlines Flight 175 hits the South Tower of the formerWorld Trade Center

9

10

11

12

13  Washington, D.C. is the capital city of USA  A new capital city named after George Washington was founded in 1791 to the east of the preexisting port of Georgetown  Washington, D.C., had a resident population of 601,723 in 2010, the 26th most populous city in the country  The centers of all three branches of the federal government of the United States

14  The city is located on the east of country.  The Washington Metropolitan Area, of which the District is a part, has a population of nearly 5.6 million, the seventh- largest metropolitan area in the country.  Location of Washington, D.C., in the United States and in relation to the states of Maryland and Virginia

15  Washington, D.C., is a planned city. The design for the City of Washington was largely the work of Pierre (Peter) Charles L’Enfant, a French-born architect, engineer, and city planner

16  The Lincoln Memorial had over six million visitors in 2010  The White House – home of Obama  The United States Congress  The Washington  the National Museum of Natural History  the National World War II Memorial  the Library of Congress is the largest library complex in the world  And many others

17

18

19

20

21


Download ppt "Jonáš hromádka and Domink Píchal  New York is the most populous city in the United States  New York City consists of five boroughs which were consolidated."

Similar presentations


Ads by Google